Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1036
Points per Word
0.000483
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Blues guitarist Blind Willie Johnson led a hardscrabble life. In 1977, when NASA's Voyager spacecrafts were launched, each carried a golden record that included one of Willie's songs, to introduce planet Earth to the cosmos.